This historical task broadens into a concern with the history and tradition of the religion that a particular theology represents.
The single most important purpose of Remembrance is its amalgamation of all wars and atrocities into a single historical task in the service of human freedom.
First of all, if the major historical task of that epoch was really to learn, to acquire, and to preserve the riches of tradition, a certain degree of "scholasticity" was not only inevitable but essential.
At one point the narrator suggests that cinema is inadequate to the historical task with the comment-question "The eye of the camera always opens too late?" The Dardennes shifted to directing fiction with their experimental 1987 feature "Falsch," an adaptation of an autobiographical play by the Belgian writer René Kalisky, whose father died at Auschwitz.
But as with all novelties that have become normal, the real historical task is to envisage not liking them, not understanding them - to imagine yourself as one of those who visited Manet's 1863 exhibition and, as King says, "menaced his canvases with their walking sticks".
According to Yorck, Luther's anti-metaphysical, historical stance towards transcendence remains a historical task for the future development of philosophy (CR, pp. 144 & 145).
"Urbanisation is a historical task," added Mr Wen, saying, "we can continue to advance our cause only by adhering to reform and opening up".
Firstly, he felt the theory had abdicated the historical task of natural science to provide knowledge of significant aspects of nature that are independent of observers or their observations.
Anticommunism as a political ideology surrendered to anticommunism as a rationale for the survival of class interests when historical task of overcoming colonialism was dominated by the Cold War atmosphere and full scale war.
